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Widely distributed in the drier parts of Africa from Senegal, east to Somalia and south to South Africa. In Ethiopia, it grows in ''Acacia, Acacia-Commiphora, Combretum- Terminalia'', and ''Commiphora-Boswellia'' woodland, wooded grassland and bushland, often on rocky slopes, in clay or sand in dry areas. This tree is typical of much thorny bush, open savanna and desert of Dry and Moist Kolla agroclimatic zones in Tigray, Gonder, Welo, Wolega, Kefa, Shoa, Gamo Gofa, Sidamo, Bale and Harerge regions, 500–1,900 m.